Dress able inflatable container

ABSTRACT

A dress able container. The container is made of a moldable material that can be inflated after molding. The container is molded in the form of a human baby and can be dressed in human baby clothes.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to provisional application Ser. No.63/327,606 filed on Apr. 5, 2022 and entitled “Dress Able InflatableContainer” and is incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention generally relates to the field of balloonsculpturing and more particularly, is directed to a dress ableinflatable container in the form of, for example a doll, that can bedressed in human-like clothing.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

As known in the art, a balloon is a flexible container or bag that canbe inflated with a gas. Gases used for such purposes include helium andhydrogen. These gases are lighter than air and is the reason thatballoons rise when released.

Balloons are traditionally made from substances such as latex, rubber,polychloroprene or nylon fabric, depending on the particular use of theballoon.

Balloon modeling or sculpturing is a favorite entertainment activity ofclowns who skillfully twist elongated balloons into recognizablecharacters, such as animals and the like. Other people who create thesekinds of sculptors are sometimes called “twisters” and perform at publicevents to display their skills.

While balloon modeling and sculpturing has filled a need in the art foran activity that is entertaining and brings joy to many, the presentinvention is directed to a new and novel use of the concept of aninflatable container or bag.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The novel features of the present invention are set out withparticularity in the following detailed description of the preferredembodiment. However, the invention will be understood more fully andclearly from the detailed description of the invention as set forth inthe accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a profile of a mold for a container in accordancewith the present invention;

FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate a latex filled vat for forming the container ofthe present invention using the mold illustrated in FIG. 1 ;

FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate the inflatable container of the presentinvention dressed in baby clothes; and

FIG. 6 illustrates the inflatable container of the present inventionmolded in a plurality of attachable parts.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described withreference to the drawing.

The invention involves making a mold of an inflatable container have aprofile, in this embodiment, of a human baby as shown in the FIG. 1 .The mold is formed with a head 1, neck 2, torso 3, legs 5 and inflationnozzle 6.

The mold is fabricated in the size of the uninflated container. However,the head, neck, torso and legs are formed in proportion to the size of areal human body.

As shown in FIG. 2 , a vat 20 containing liquid latex 21 is prepared inorder to receive the mold. Other suitable molding materials may be usedas well. The mold is then dipped into vat 20 as illustrated in FIG. 3 toallow the latex to adhere to the mold and form the container. Afterdipping, the mold is allowed to cool and then is subjected to avulcanizing oven where inflation nozzle 6 is completed in order tocomplete formation of the container.

When the container is inflated through nozzle 6 to, for example, thesize of a new born baby, the size of the head, neck, torso and legs willremain in the correct proportions. This will allow the container, nowresembling a new born baby, to be dressed in regular human baby clothesthat can be purchased or otherwise acquired as would be the case for ahuman baby.

The container can be inflated to define the desired age of the baby. Fora 2-month-old baby for example, the container can be inflated to thesized of a typical 2-month-old and so on and so forth.

FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate the inflatable container dressed with babyclothes in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 6 illustrates the container, resembling a human baby form, moldedin a plurality of parts, including a head 61, torso 62, arms 63 and 66and legs 64 and 65. Once molded the constituent parts can be attached totorso 62 such as by gluing, or by a thermal melting process as known inthe art in order to form the completed structure.

While the foregoing specification and drawings teaches the principles ofthe present invention, with examples provided for the purpose ofillustration, it will be appreciated by one skilled in the art fromreading this disclosure that various changes in form and detail can bemade without departing from the true scope of the invention.

We claim:
 1. An inflatable dress able container, said containercomprising: a moldable inflatable material; said material being moldedin a predetermined form; and wherein said form has the profile of ahuman baby.